Claude Debussy: “La plus que lente”
Harold Edgerton, How to Make Applesauce, 1964
Simone Weil, Waiting for God, 176-177
”The question of Beaumarchais: “Why these things rather than others? ” never has any answer, because the world is devoid of finality. The absence of finality is the reign of necessity. Things have causes and not ends. Those who think to discern special designs of Providence are like professors who give themselves up to what they call the explanation of the text, at the expense of a beautiful poem…Affliction forces us to feel with all our souls the absence of finality.”
Mark Rothko: Lavender and Mulberry, 1959 – Oil on paper mounted on fiberboard (Hirshhorn)
“I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.” ― Mark Rothko
Carlos Martiel, Mar sin orillas (Sea Without Shores), 2016. Photo: Annamaria La Mastra.
“I remain enclosed within a glass box surrounded by blow flies (Calliphoridae), an insect that feeds itself exclusively with decaying meat.”
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #87, 1981.
Top, photograph by Mike Kelley, Black Out (Detroit River) Detail: Panel 1, 2011, 30,5 x 30,5 cm, Ed 100. Original from a 2001 series of eight cibachrome prints mounted on board, 67,3 x 127,3 cm each, Ed 5. Via. More. Bottom, photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki, from the series Love on the Left Eye, 2014, RP-Pro Crystal print, image size: 36,3 x 54.5 cm, paper size: 45,7 x 56 cm. Via. More.
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As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.
Martin Amis, interviewed by Francesca Riviere for Paris Review, Spring 1998. Via.
Joanna Newsom wrote & performed this piece when she was 17.
however imprecise and out of tune this is, it’s one of her prettiest melodies and you can hear how it is borne so purely and of a lonely mind, without the saturating influence of multi-piece orchestras/bands and sound mixers
Little Bristling Soul 